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Another beverage that I’ve been enjoying in Peru is called emoliente. You can find this in any town, whether in a little mountain village or the big city of Lima. Vendors congregate in the streets at dawn and dusk in plazas or by bus stops with their rolling carts of unlabeled glass bottles of colorful […]

I am not a big beverage drinker in general since I kicked my addiction to orange juice. My husband and I were going through the family size jug at least once a week. It was delicious and thirst quenching but dangerous for the pancreas since it was such a concentrated sugar rush without the fiber […]

I don’t really appreciate how nice it is to have your very own kitchen and a well-stocked pantry until I am in a foreign country with an empty kitchen and very little inspiration to cook. I smuggled “Vegan with a Vengeance” with me to Peru, hoping it would provide some sort of light in a […]

A new food discovery that I have made while in Peru is Hierba luisa, a grass-like plant that tends to grow easily on the coast of Northern Peru. I bought a box of Hierba luisa tea at the market because I didn’t know what it was and I wanted to try it. It has a […]

I’m always looking this information up. Here it is all in one place. 1 tsp sea salt = 2 Tbl tamari/soysauce/bragg’s = 1 Tbl dark miso = 1.5 Tbl light miso 1:1 wonders Yogurt: Sour Cream; Arrowroot: Cornstarch: Kudzu 1 tsp dried herbs = 1 Tbl fresh herb 1 lemon = 1 fl oz juice […]

Buttermilk: 8 fl oz of buttermilk can be easily replaced by your favorite soy/rice/nut milk plus 1 Tbl acid of choice (lemon juice, apple cider vinegar etc). Milk: Um, just use your favorite non-dairy milk. My favorite is my homemade cashew milk. It’s creamy, fatty and delicious. Butter : 1 stick of butter is the […]

I’ll be travelling/volunteering/cooking in South America for the next few months and can’t really carry around my cookbooks and reference materials with me. But I will be sad if I can’t access the essentials, so I will post them here for you as well, hoping it becomes a valuable resource. I have gleaned this info […]

Visiting friends and family in Connecticut, I was able to squeeze in a dinner at one of my favorite places to eat in CT. It’s located just past WestFarms mall, in the Borders Books plaza, tucked in the back. A rite of passage for the vegan hardcore kids, China Pan pleases all. They have food […]

I’m totally on a nut milk kick.  I have been drinking soy milk constantly for at least the last 11 years and the past few years we’ve been ordering dried soy milk powder from Sammi’s Best.  By buying it dehydrated, one 4 lb jug of the powder is equivalent to 22 quarts of soy milk.  […]

I had some overripe apricots crying in the fridge from neglect. I don’t like to eat them when they get overripe, and this recipe popped into my head. I made this two years ago, but with eggs. Today it has been veganized and I think the world is better because of it’s goodness. Try it […]